From this project
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Victoria Bates, Feeling Blue: Colour and the modern British hospital (Manchester University Press, 2025).
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, Making and re-making the hospital: Using collaging and mapping to explore children and young people’s experiences of the hospital environment, Multimodality & Society (2025).
Victoria Bates and Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, Making memories: creative research and sensory history, Rethinking History (2025).
Victoria Bates, ‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain, Medical Humanities (2025).
Victoria Bates, Jennifer Crane and Maria Fannin, The construction and politics of the ‘birth experience’ in Britain, 1948–93, Cultural History (2025).
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, ‘Sensing Maternity Spaces: Using creative approaches to explore sensory experiences within a maternity department’, Design for Health (2024).
Victoria Bates, Jennifer Crane, and Maria Fannin, ‘Fluid modernities: the birthing pool in late twentieth-century Britain’, Medical Humanities, 50 (2024).
Marie Allitt, Agnes Arnold-Forster, Harriet Barratt, Victoria Bates, Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, and Clare Hickman, ‘Senses and spaces of modern health/care: special issue editorial’, The Senses and Society (2024) [currently online first]
Agnes Arnold-Forster and Victoria Bates, ‘Care and Crisis: Making Beds in the National Health Service’, Journal of British Studies, 16 (2024).
Sarah Campbell, Robyn Dowlen, and Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, Embracing Complexity Within Creative Approaches to Dementia Research: Ethics, Reflexivity, and Research Practices, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22 (2023).
Victoria Bates and Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, ‘Listening through Lines: Mark-making, sound and the hospital’, Wellbeing, Space and Society, 3 (2022).
Victoria Bates, ‘Cold White of Day: White, colour, and materiality in the twentieth-century British hospital’,Twentieth Century British History (2022).
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, ‘Rethinking creative research methods in response to COVID-19: Creating a remote research kit’, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 12 (2021).
Victoria Bates, Making Noise in the Modern Hospital (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Other Project Publications (not peer-reviewed)
Jane Willis, with Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, Sensing Spaces of Healthcare: Exploring Sensory Experiences within Hospital Spaces Using Creative Research Methods [project evaluation].
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, ‘Speculative Mapping Activity’ in V. Bates (ed.), Sensory Research Methods in the Humanities: An Introduction to Five Methods (2023).
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, ‘Feeling your Dream Hospital: A Creative Workshop‘, The Polyphony, 8 April 2022.
Victoria Bates, ‘How the Noises of the Hospital can become a Healing Soundscape’, Psyche, 8 February 2022.
Other relevant and recent publications from the project team
Marie Allitt, Agnes Arnold-Forster, Harriet Barratt, Victoria Bates, Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, and Clare Hickman, ‘Making, Movement and Multidisciplinary Exchange: Reflecting on ‘Senses and Health/Care Environments’‘, The Polyphony, 9 June 2022.
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, Victoria Tischler, and Deirdre Robson, ‘Aesthetics and dementia: exploring the role of everyday aesthetics in dementia care settings’, Design for Health (2022)
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, Victoria Tischler, and Deirdre Robson, ‘Using creative, sensory and embodied research methods when working with people with dementia: a method story‘, Arts & Health (2021), 1-17.
Victoria Bates et al., Beyond Landscape’s Visible Realm: Recorded sound, nature, and wellbeing, Health & Place (2020).
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, Kate Hefferon, and Carolyn Mair, ‘“It’s like… it’s me”: exploring the lived experience of clothing attachment during wear’, International Journal of Fashion Studies 6.1 (2019), 41-62.
Victoria Bates, Sensing space and making place: The hospital and therapeutic landscapes in two cancer narratives, Medical Humanities 45 (2019), 10-20.
Victoria Bates, ‘Humanizing’ healthcare environments: architecture, art and design in modern hospitals, Design for Health 2 (2019), 5-19.